*** this is preliminary version, please ask me before you share it ***

1. Digest

This document outlines the general line of work of FreeLab for 2016/2017. It is a main „programmatic document” for everyone who wishes to support or join the activity.

The priorities assigned to each product will be dynamic and depend of available resources, demand for solutions and support from the co-workers.

All constructions will be developed and published under the CC-BY-SA licence. The documentation will be available for free.

Please note that this revision is not final. Budget numbers wil be added in following editions. Meanwhile you are invited to send me a feedback concerning proposed products and technologies.Continue reading FreeLab 2016/17 product line→

Here for you to enjoy: a set of slides for my presentation at “How to do it 2016” conference in London. If you are around and want to see & hear me in the meatspace, just arrive.
[su_slider source=”media: 3667,3666,3665,3664,3663,3662,3661,3660,3659,3658,3657,3656,3655,3654,3653,3652,3651,3650,3649″ limit=”54″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”480″ title=”no” autoplay=”8000″ speed=”800″]

This year my traditional Spring Trip leads me to London! I am invited to have a presentation and optionally a workshop on liberatory technology, during a conference held at Kings College (https://how2doit2016.wordpress.com/). Thanks to my friend’s hospitality I will be able to stay longer, so the current plan is that I arrive in the afternoon/evening of 4.04 and leave sometime at 14th. Between these dates I am going to run the conference events, meet friends from the UK (funding permitting) and do other things FB doesn’t need to know about.

So, if you want to meet me there, just join the event and we shall coordinate somehow.

It is going to be FUN!

THE BUDGET

As usually, the budget is next to nil. As for now, I have fixed:
– Shelter for the whole time I stay, thanks to Z. and his family.
– 50 quid from the organizers of the conference, which will probably cover my Oyster card.

I am definitively short:
~ 120 Euro for the round trip air tickets (RyanAir).
~ 30-50 Euro of reserve for extravagances like a cup of tea.
[Food I hope to get for free — all suggestions will be appreciated]

My kind request to you, folks, is: If you can buy me an air tickets (can be one way — at least TO London), please pm me and we will arrange that.

Other than that, just find the fundraising section here to the right and drop something in. You will be satisfied, I promise.

Posts navigation

Quotes I value

Anarchy

Noam Chomsky: Well, anarchism is, in my view, basically a kind of tendency in human thought which shows up in different forms in different circumstances, and has some leading characteristics. Primarily it is a tendency that is suspicious and skeptical of domination, authority, and hierarchy. It seeks structures of hierarchy and domination in human life over the whole range, extending from, say, patriarchal families to, say, imperial systems, and it asks whether those systems are justified. It assumes that the burden of proof for anyone in a position of power and authority lies on them. Their authority is not self-justifying. They have to give a reason for it, a justification. And if they can’t justify that authority and power and control, which is the usual case, then the authority ought to be dismantled and replaced by something more free and just. And, as I understand it, anarchy is just that tendency. It takes different forms at different times.

Omniscience

Leszek Kołakowski: True, I was almost omniscient (yet not entirely) when I was 20 years old but, as you know, people grow stupid when they grow older, and so, I was much less omniscient when I was 28 and still less now.